[goldstategop]

The key was in front of Darwin in his day. Gregor Mendel just completed a groundbreaking study in genetics and the great difficulty with natural selection was the absence of a convincing mechanism to transmit desired characteristics from parents to offspring. Science eventually became aware of it in 1900. Its a good example of great breakthroughs in thoughts by different people who don't realize they each hold different parts of the same map. That's less likely to happen today but its interesting nonetheless.

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[djf]

Funny thing is, when I read his works, especially Beagle, you can tell the man is profoundly excited. He is highly poetic, very meticulous in his observations.

And while he may not have ever attibuted the observations to a divine being, he was almost reverent in what he was finding out.

Great science is always like that. It answers many questions, but brings even more to the horizon.